This adjective is used in the name of a literary review magazine edited by Wendy Lesser that features “symposium”-style cultural essays where numerous authors write on one topic. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this adjective that appears in the title of a novel where the one-legged George Fewkoombey murders William Coax with his own prosthetic leg before being falsely convicted and hanged for the drowning of Mary Sawyer.
ANSWER: Threepenny [accept The Threepenny Review; accept Threepenny Novel; accept The Threepenny Opera]
[10e] Fewkoombey appears in this author’s Threepenny Novel. This playwright also created The Threepenny Opera with Kurt Weill and Elisabeth Hauptmann.
ANSWER: Bertolt Brecht
[10m] Garga and the lumber merchant Shlink metaphorically spar in a Brecht play titled for being in the jungle of one of these places. The “Alabama Song” is sung in a Brecht opera about the “Rise and Fall of” one of these places called Mahagonny.
ANSWER: city [accept In the Jungle of the City; accept Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny]
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